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Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 2:41:09 PM)
No. Only one is a mystery, and only one is a novel. Good starting guess, though.

mnottertail -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 2:47:21 PM)
no real idea, I never have done the bananafish one, but hazarding a guess I would say all take place against the backdrop of a war?

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 2:53:00 PM)
Another worthy guess....but no, war is not the commonality.

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 4:38:29 PM)
First works? Prufrock marked the start of T.S. Eliot's career. Letter is considered one of the forerunners of modern detective stories, although not the first by Poe. Brothers is the first novel by Dostoyevsky. Bananafish is the first of Salinger's stories to feature the fictional Glass family.

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 5:01:07 PM)
Sorry--The Brothers Karamazov was Dostoyevsky's last novel. But speaking of first--the commonality is evident right from the first page. The Quartet again: The Purloined Letter The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock A Perfect Day for Bananafish [Note--I guess more accurately I should have said Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger--A Perfect Day for Bananafish is the first story of that collection. So I mean the first page of the collection, Nine Stories. Sorry if I've accidentally misled. I just wanted to direct your attention to the beginning of that work.] The Brothers Karamazov

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 5:04:13 PM)
Sorry, my source said "final" and my old eyes saw "first". Oops.

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 5:15:36 PM)
AND since I should have said Nine Stories, meaning the collection, not each individually, here's another hint: You don't need your charts and graphs to solve this one. Only a certain kind of "graph."

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 5:26:56 PM)
How about gloomy nights?

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 5:30:06 PM)
LOL -- It was a dark and stormy night.... No...but look at the hints....you can quote me on them....

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 6:01:36 PM)
Epigraph - a quote at the begining?

sunshinemiss -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 6:17:55 PM)
graphs... pies?

Musicmystery -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 7:52:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: fluffypet61 Epigraph - a quote at the begining? And we have a winner! Yes, they each start with an epigraph informing the work: Seneca for Poe, Dante's Inferno for Eliot, a Zen koan for Salinger, and the Gospel of John for Dostoyevsky. Fluffy's turn to compose a quartet.

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 8:15:47 PM)
i don't know which is more difficult ... composing or solving. Give me a few.....

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 8:22:26 PM)
Morgantown Austin Norman Champaign

DarkSteven -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 8:31:07 PM)
They're all county seats?

fluffypet61 -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/25/2009 8:42:14 PM)
That's not the connection i had in mind.

intenze -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/26/2009 3:42:57 AM)
They all have big universities?

sunshinemiss -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/26/2009 4:00:32 AM)
They are all named after a person.

RapierFugue -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/26/2009 4:06:43 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss They are all named after a person. What? One person? Wow, that must have been a hell of a name [;)] "I'd like you to meet Norman Austin Morgan Champaign, he's ... oh, he's gone!"

sunshinemiss -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (8/26/2009 4:09:05 AM)
My aunt had a name like that.... course she had about 6 husbands... [8\|]

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